Gas Coupons & Fishing Bait

This past summer I am filling up my car at the local gas station and as I push the door open to pay for my purchase I announce "Pump Eight" so that the young lady can see on her machine that I owe about $30 for my gas. I whip out some Gas Coupons that I have been saving that come to about $1.50 off. She runs my charge card and asks me to sign here. I look at the slip and it 'looks like' I am only paying $0.30 ? I give it the old once-over but it still looks like I am paying $0.30, so I sign the slip, rather then protest. Just as I am about to leave, a young man that was kind of helping the young lady emerges from the back room with a puzzled look on his face and styrofoam container in his hand. He calls out to me "Don't you want your bait?" A few seconds later I see what has happened: She has thought I said "Bait" when I first walked in.

Lacking in a 'Sense of Humour' can cost you

I am standing in line at a popular video rental store waiting for my turn to pay for my rental. I have my hands in my pockets and I am fingering this Save $0.50 coupon on my next box of Froot Loops. I must have forgot to use it at my last trip to the grocery store? I turn to my wife and I ask "Do you think this girl has a sense of humour?" (I am referring to the clerk, a young teen that is going to be serving me in a few minutes). With a quick glance my wife says "Yes, I think she has a sense of humour". On that note I step up to the counter and show my rental card and the movie I want to rent. With a cheesy smile on my face I extend my arm with mechanical precision, like I was in the Seinfeld Episode: The Soup Nazi and I say "I have a coupon". The young lady takes my coupon and quicky looks it over. I am ready to have a good laugh with her. She should say "Nice try", but that doesn't happen. She picks up the bar code reader to make the coupon good. 'Beep', the computer complains. With a furrow in her brow she looks on the computer manually, looking for a matching coupon. She tries to scan it again, 'Beep', the computer complains again. She quickly types in a override code and gives me $0.50 off my rental. She never once looked up at me to witness my big cheesy smile that would have conveyed 'the jokes on you' . My wife had to leave the store ahead of me , she is laughing so hard. =)